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Not clear on the DNS settings

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#1 Sun, 09/21/2014 - 05:39

eiger3970

Not clear on the DNS settings

Hi, I am not clear on how the DNS settings should be set up? I have a domain name with a registrar. Do I point the domain name with the registrar to ns1.domainname or the public WAN IP of my Virtualmin server?

Then, in Virtualmin, do I set the DNS Records of Type A- IPv4 Address to the LAN virtual IP or the public WAN IP? Do I set the DNS Records of Type NS - Name Server to ns1.domain?

#2 Mon, 09/22/2014 - 09:53

andreychek

Howdy,

IP addresses in your DNS should point to your external/public IP address.

That will happen automatically if you go into System Settings -> Virtualmin Config -> Network Settings, and there make sure that "Default IP address for DNS records" is set to "Automatically detect external address".

-Eric

#3 Tue, 09/23/2014 - 23:31 (Reply to #2)

eiger3970

Thank you for the reply. Yes, the default settings are set to that. However in Virtualmin > Server Configuration > DNS Records > the A - IPv4 Address are the LAN IP of the Virtual Server I created. I then have to manually change the A - IPV4 Addresses to the public WAN IP.

This may occur because when I setup multiple Virtual Servers, I select IP address and forwarding > Network Interface: Virtual with IP: xxx.xxx.x.xxx > Create server.

I believe this manually set LAN IP allows me and others to access the different virtual servers/websites?

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